GAME: MindTrap

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Originally Posted by edball

Germany didn't have divisions ?

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Nope.

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Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Captain's don't lead Batallions.

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Negatory.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Captain Frank and some of the boys were exchanging old war stories.

Art Bragg offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a German division during World War I.

Through brilliant manoeuvres he defeated them and captured valuable territory. After the battle he was presented with a sword bearing the inscription: "To Captain Bragg for Bravery, Daring and Leadership. World War One. From the Men of Battalion 8."

Captain Frank looked at Art and said, "You really don't expect anyone to believe that yarn do you?"

What's wrong with the story?

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Because they didn't know it was called WW1 yet.

WWI was not a heavy sword intensive battle. Also, it was a sit and bomb campaign, and maneuvers were not as heavily used as in previous and later wars. His father would also have to have been born close to 100 years ago, which is unlikely.


The real reason is because the sword supposedly said world war one. They did not refer to it as that until after wwii, before it was known as the great war.

Damn you ed, that is the 2nd time today I have been in the middle of an answer, get pulled away, and then find that you have answered in the meantime. :flame:

That's it, I am going to lunch. It's 5:00 somewhere. :thumbs:

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Originally Posted by Camaro80z

Damn you ed, that is the 2nd time today I have been in the middle of an answer, get pulled away, and then find that you have answered in the meantime. :flame:

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Sorry......not ! :p

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Originally Posted by edball

Because they didn't know it was called WW1 yet.

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There you go.


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Originally Posted by Camaro80z

...The real reason is because the sword supposedly said world war one. They did not refer to it as that until after wwii, before it was known as the great war.

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Bonus point to you for that detail.

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!"


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The paragraph never once uses the letter "e", the most commonly used letter in the english language.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!"

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It doesn't have a "the" in it ?

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!"

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Missing the letter E, none of the words use it, and it is such a common word...

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

Missing the letter E, none of the words use it, and it is such a common word...

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You gots it.


3.

There are two airplanes heading straight toward each other.

One plane is travelling at 15 kilometres per minute, and the other is travelling at 10 kilometres per minute.

Assuming that the planes are exactly 1000 kilometres apart, what distance will be between them one minute before they meet?


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It will be 25 Km, the total value of their combined speeds per minute.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

There are two airplanes heading straight toward each other.

One plane is travelling at 15 kilometres per minute, and the other is travelling at 10 kilometres per minute.

Assuming that the planes are exactly 1000 kilometres apart, what distance will be between them one minute before they meet?

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25 k

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

There are two airplanes heading straight toward each other.

One plane is travelling at 15 kilometres per minute, and the other is travelling at 10 kilometres per minute.

Assuming that the planes are exactly 1000 kilometres apart, what distance will be between them one minute before they meet?

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10 km + 15 km = 25 km.

That's easy... ;)

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

There are two airplanes heading straight toward each other.

One plane is travelling at 15 kilometres per minute, and the other is travelling at 10 kilometres per minute.

Assuming that the planes are exactly 1000 kilometres apart, what distance will be between them one minute before they meet?

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P.S. It will take 39 minutes, the faster plane will travel 585k, the slower 390.

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Originally Posted by edball

25 k

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Dogh!!! :sad:

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

Dogh!!! :sad:

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That's why I try to give my short answer first. Gotta be quick around here. ;)

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Originally Posted by edball

25 k

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3.

I see Diety was racking up the points while I was gone for a week. At least he's gone today, I need to catch up ! :devil:

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Originally Posted by edball

I see Diety was racking up the points while I was gone for a week. At least he's gone today, I need to catch up ! :devil:

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But ya gotta give a Jarhead a chance man. I don't want 1st or 2nd, I just want a shot at third. Can you give a guy a break here... :thumbs:

Atleast I am not the only one ed is taking out! :thumbs:


P.S. Well done today, edball! :thumbs2:

Scheming Suzie explained to her father that she would not be attending school anymore.

She said she had been doing some figuring and found that she just didn't have the time for classes.

She reasoned, "I sleep eight hours a day and that totals 2,920 hours or 122 days a year. Saturdays and Sundays add up to 104 days in a year. If I allow three hours a day for meals, that comes to 45 days a year. The summer holidays add up to 60 days and if I allow just two hours a day for TV and recreation, this amounts to an additional 30 days.
If I add all these days, they total 361 and that's not including Christmas, Easter and the other holidays we get."

What is the flaw in Suzie's reasoning?


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She's doubling up time. With sixty days of summer, she didn’t subtract sleeping and eating, and what not from the prior totals.

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Originally Posted by edball

I see Diety was racking up the points while I was gone for a week. At least he's gone today, I need to catch up ! :devil:

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It's like an F1 race where Michael has pulled ahead and all the other, very much talented, drivers battle it out for a place on the podium. :D

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Scheming Suzie explained to her father that she would not be attending school anymore.

She said she had been doing some figuring and found that she just didn't have the time for classes.

She reasoned, "I sleep eight hours a day and that totals 2,920 hours or 122 days a year. Saturdays and Sundays add up to 104 days in a year. If I allow three hours a day for meals, that comes to 45 days a year. The summer holidays add up to 60 days and if I allow just two hours a day for TV and recreation, this amounts to an additional 30 days.
If I add all these days, they total 361 and that's not including Christmas, Easter and the other holidays we get."

What is the flaw in Suzie's reasoning?

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She does not factor in leap year.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Scheming Suzie explained to her father that she would not be attending school anymore.

She said she had been doing some figuring and found that she just didn't have the time for classes.

She reasoned, "I sleep eight hours a day and that totals 2,920 hours or 122 days a year. Saturdays and Sundays add up to 104 days in a year. If I allow three hours a day for meals, that comes to 45 days a year. The summer holidays add up to 60 days and if I allow just two hours a day for TV and recreation, this amounts to an additional 30 days.
If I add all these days, they total 361 and that's not including Christmas, Easter and the other holidays we get."

What is the flaw in Suzie's reasoning?

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She's doubling up time. With sixty days of summer, she didn’t subtract sleeping and eating, and what not from the prior totals.

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

But ya gotta give a Jarhead a chance man. I don't want 1st or 2nd, I just want a shot at third. Can you give a guy a break here... :thumbs:

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You've just been goofing off and have 4th. Who said Marines aren't smart (I think it was Cleetus) ? :devil:

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

She's doubling up time. With sixty days of summer, she didn’t subtract sleeping and eating, and what not from the prior totals.

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Well Done, I just realized that and started to post when I saw yours. Good Job! :thumbs:

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

She's doubling up time. With sixty days of summer, she didn’t subtract sleeping and eating, and what not from the prior totals.

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Turn my back for one second.....

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

It's like an F1 race where Michael has pulled ahead and all the other, very much talented, drivers battle it out for a place on the podium. :D

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I'm shooting for the top !

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Originally Posted by Ya_know

She's doubling up time. With sixty days of summer, she didn’t subtract sleeping and eating, and what not from the prior totals.

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3 more. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what is the answer?


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70.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what is the answer?

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70

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Originally Posted by Camaro80z

70

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I almost got whiplash from the speed of your reply!


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Originally Posted by Camaro80z

70

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And I thought my mustang was fast... :p

Sharing the Music
by Randall L. Whipkey (please do not google this)


Each of six teen friends are sharing the music by lending a CD of his or her favorite group to one of the other five.

From the clues below, you should be able to determine which CD each of the six owns and who is borrowing and currently enjoying it.

1. The six music sharers are Ben, the girl who owns the Cake CD, the boy who is borrowing the 3 Doors Down CD, Wendy, the teenager who owns the CD by No Doubt, and the one who is currently listening to another's Train CD.
2. Two of the boys are borrowing music owned by two of the girls; the boy who is listening to another boy's favorite has his Matchbox Twenty CD.
3. Wendy, who isn't the teen who owns the 3 Doors Down CD, isn't the person who is borrowing the Cake music.
4. Trisha is borrowing neither the Barenaked Ladies nor the No Doubt CD.
5. James is borrowing neither the Cake nor the Matchbox Twenty CD.
6. Ben isn't the friend who is listening to Cindy's favorite group, and Cindy isn't the one listening to Kevin's loaned CD.
7. The teen who is borrowing the No Doubt CD doesn't own the Barenaked Ladies music.

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• Cindy, Cake, Barenaked Ladies
• Trisha, 3 Doors Down, Train
• Wendy, Train, No Doubt
• Ben, Barenaked Ladies, Matchbox Twenty
• James, Matchbox Twenty, 3 Doors Down
• Kevin, No Doubt, Cake
  

Long explanation:
The six teenagers are listed in clue 1 as follows: Ben, the girl who owns the Cake CD, the boy who is borrowing the 3 Doors Down CD, Wendy, the one who owns the No Doubt CD, and the teen who is borrowing the CD by Train. So, two of the boys are Ben and the one borrowing 3 Doors Down; and two of the girls are Wendy and the one who owns Cake. If the one in clue 1 who is borrowing Train were the third boy and the one who owns No Doubt then the third girl, by clue 2, Ben would have borrowed the Matchbox Twenty CD. Also by clue 2, since only Ben would have borrowed a CD from a girl, the boy who borrowed Train would have gotten it from Wendy. However, the 3 Doors Down CD that one boy is borrowing then would have to belong to another boy, a conflict with clue 2. Therefore, in clue 1, the one who owns the No Doubt CD is the third boy; and the teen who is borrowing the Train CD is the third girl. Since only the Matchbox Twenty CD is both owned and borrowed by a boy (clue 2), the 3 Doors Down CD must belong to a girl--by clue 3, the girl who is borrowing Train. Since Wendy isn't borrowing the Cake recording (3), one of the boys is, with another boy borrowing the Matchbox Twenty set (2). So, Wendy and the girl who owns the Cake music are borrowing the Barenaked Ladies and No Doubt CDs in some order. The latter girl then cannot be Trisha (4) and must be Cindy. Trisha owns the 3 Doors Down CD. Since James isn't borrowing the Cake or Matchbox Twenty CD (5), he must be the boy borrowing the 3 Doors Down album. Kevin owns No Doubt. Then Cindy isn't borrowing No Doubt (6) and must be borrowing Barenaked Ladies; Wendy is borrowing No Doubt. Wendy then must own the Train music (7). Ben did not borrow Cindy's Cake CD (6), so he is enjoying Matchbox Twenty, which belongs to James. Kevin is listening to Cake, and Ben owns the Barenaked Ladies CD.

What?

No takers yet? https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

Hey Adept check your PM.

Got it. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Sharing the Music
by Randall L. Whipkey (please do not google this)

Each of six teen friends are sharing the music by lending a CD of his or her favorite group to one of the other five.



From the clues below, you should be able to determine which CD each of the six owns and who is borrowing and currently enjoying it.

1. The six music sharers are Ben, the girl who owns the Cake CD, the boy who is borrowing the 3 Doors Down CD, Wendy, the teenager who owns the CD by No Doubt, and the one who is currently listening to another's Train CD.
2. Two of the boys are borrowing music owned by two of the girls; the boy who is listening to another boy's favorite has his Matchbox Twenty CD.
3. Wendy, who isn't the teen who owns the 3 Doors Down CD, isn't the person who is borrowing the Cake music.
4. Trisha is borrowing neither the Barenaked Ladies nor the No Doubt CD.
5. James is borrowing neither the Cake nor the Matchbox Twenty CD.
6. Ben isn't the friend who is listening to Cindy's favorite group, and Cindy isn't the one listening to Kevin's loaned CD.
7. The teen who is borrowing the No Doubt CD doesn't own the Barenaked Ladies music.

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name owned cd borrowed cd
ben bare-naked ladies matchbox 20
james matchbox 20 3 doors down
kevin no doubt cake
wendy train no doubt
cindy cake bare-naked ladies
trisha 3 doors down train